“Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
"Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” is a podcast series, colored with humor, nostalgia and pathos. It’s about a Boston tenement kid, born in 1939, clawing his way out of poverty by being hard-working, creative, persistent, entrepreneurial and by taking risks often. There are also stories of my later life in Boston, Cambridge and New England. If you like old Boston stories or Irish-American stories or old Cambridge stories, this is your podcast. If you like Pull-Yourself-Up-By-The-Bootstrap type stories and/or down-to-earth philosophy with a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
I am Roderick Patrick Murphy, born into a large, loving Irish family in Boston, widowed after 50+ happy years. So I am now doing some writing, volunteering and learning how to be a bachelor again.
“Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
Repurp Episode 5B 12 Year Old Delinquents & Fenway Park Scamming
Repurp Episode 5B 12 Year Old Delinquents & Fenway Park Scamming.
One of my many moneymaking gigs, involved Fenway Park and the Red Sox. The father of Basil Iliopoulos, one of my pals, owned a diner on Brookline Avenue, just down from Fenway Park. Basil worked part time at the diner. He told us about a car-parking scheme, that we could pull off near Fenway. Mickey Mickle later to become a notorious Cambridge bookie, Basil, Deacon Donahue dead at 22 from a mob hit and I, found an office building and a warehouse for Sears Roebucks and only used on weekdays. The Sears parking lot was perfect for parking cars on weekend games and we took full advantage.
